Demographics of israel

National-religious men overrepresented in IDF reserves as haredim stay absent, IDI analysis finds

National-Religious men were found to have increased in service substantially from the start of the war until 2025, while the participation of secular men decreased the most of any group.

 THE ZIONIST identity didn’t overcome the Jewish identity, nor did the opposite occur: An IDF soldier puts on tefillin.
 A man casts his vote in the Israeli general elections, at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.

How Israel's migration figures are liable to affect the next election results - opinion

Israelis enjoy Rosh Hashanah fair at a social complex in Jerusalem, September 19, 2025

Rosh Hashanah 2025: Israeli population crosses 10 million ahead of Jewish New Year

 MUSLIMS, JEWS and Israeli security forces are present on the Temple Mount during Passover and Ramadan.

Muslim fertility rate in Israel continues 22-year fall as Eid al-Adha approaches


Fundamentally Freund: Demography and Jewish destiny

We are standing on the cusp of a tidal wave of return, one that will see countless Jewish descendants reconnect with Jewry. Let’s embrace this opportunity.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish pilgrim blows a shofar, near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah holiday, the Jewish New Year, in Uman, Ukraine, September 21, 2017.

Reaching the road

The Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research

Percentage of vehicles older than a decade in Israel's biggest cities, 2016

Israel: Crying or laughing?

The general picture produced by the Democracy Index is of a manic-depressive society.

INTERNATIONAL INDEXES rank Israel as democratically stable compared to the rest of the world and find that it is slowly but steadily improving in certain areas.

Terra Incognita: Armchair demographers, the Diaspora, Israel and baby-counting racism

Jerusalem may have holy sites that the world has an interest in, but the demographics of Jerusalem should be of no concern to anyone.

Children look out of the family house of Palestinian Mohammad Al-Salahe, 32, in Al-Faraa refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus

The demography of Jerusalem

If current trends continue, the ratio of Jews and non-Jews will level off around mid-century, and thereafter Jews in Jerusalem will be the minority.

AN AERIAL view of the Temple Mount and east Jerusalem.

PM delays vote on bill annexing Greater Jerusalem after US frowns on it

The bill in question seeks to legalize the annexation of 19 settlements to the capital and has sparked a heated debate in the government.

A VIEW of the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ramot (foreground) and Ramat Shlomo (background).

The reinvention of Jewish space

Israel’s imminent emergence as the Jewish nation’s demographic center will revolutionize Jewish history.

Hebrew University’s Sergio DellaPergola, the world’s senior expert on Jewish demographics

UN: Palestinian, Israeli fatalities drop in 2016

Main cause of Palestinian deaths and injuries still ‘occupation,’ annual report says

PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS drag a burning tire during a protest in a-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem.

Half-Baked Legal Arguments about the Occupation and Borders

The Jerusalem Post

US is no model of democracy for Israel

There is a tendency to ignore the flaws and inequalities in American society and to prefer the US over Europe.

An Israeli flag is seen in the background as a man casts his ballot for the parliamentary election